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Centre for Immediate Care Services
THE MERIT PROJECT
Medical Emergency Responders:
Integration & Training
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Centre for Immediate Care Services
AIMS Funding Agencies
• Establishment of structures to train, equip,
and integrate Registered Medical practitioners • Pre Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC)
• Explore liaison structures between • Taskforce on Sudden Cardiac Death
Registered Medical Practitioners / Co-Ops • HSE
Ambulance Service & Communities
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PHECC REQUEST – MAY 2006 DEFIB PURCHASE
EU TENDER COMPLETED JAN 2006
“……. To embark on a joint exercise with the HSE
• Technical capacity
to come up with standard specifications for defibrillator
• Clinical purpose
types to suit various contexts e.g. Community First
• Quality / reliability / performance
Responders, Emergency Medical First Responders,
• User friendliness
Paramedics,
Paramedics Advanced Paramedics and Registered
• Battery
Medical Practitioners.”
• Upgrade to new ALS guidelines
• Cost
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WORKING GROUP SET UP WELCOME TO THE FIRST NATIONAL DEFIB STANDARDS MEETING
BELFIELD - 13th SEPTEMBER 2007
Prof Gerard Bury
Mr Brendan Cavanagh
Ms Mairéad Egan
Dr Geoff King
Ms Mary O’Brien
Mr Charles O’Neill
Mr Richard Shannon
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TERMS OF REFERENCE CONSULTATION GROUP SET UP
• Mr Frank Kelly, Principal Engineer, SVUH
• To report to MERIT Steering Committee • Dr Niall MacAleenan, Medical Assessor of
• Medical Devices, IMB
• To complete task within three months • Mr Frank McClintock, Assistant Director,
• National Hospitals Office
• To consult with relevant parties as necessary
• • Ms Orla O’Dea, Procurement & Contracts
• To identify any associated issues of importance Manager, UCD
• Mr Patrick Pentony, ETC1 TC10 Executive
Member, Head of Clinical Engineering &
Medical Physics, Connolly Hospital
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CONTRIBUTORS
• Regional Training Officers / Ambulance Service Training Officers
• Paramedics / Advanced Paramedics
• Voluntary Organisations
• The Trade
• Registered Medical Practitioners / Consultants in Emergency
Medicine
• Specialist Nurses
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PHECC CATEGORIES ASSESSMENTS UNDER 2 BROAD
1 CARDIAC FIRST RESPONDER HEADINGS
• The Purchasing Process
2 EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONDER
• Technical Specification
3 EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN
4 PARAMEDIC
5 ADVANCED PARAMEDIC
6 REGISTERED MEDICAL PRACTITIONER
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The purchasing process
• Tables 2-9
• Procurement thresholds
• Suggested documents to request from supplier
• Cost consideration – AED / training
• EU Directives
• Environmental considerations
• After sales considerations / procedures
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Technical Specification
• 6 levels of user with different needs
• Every AED feature to be assessed for each
user as being either:…………..
B
DEVELOPING TECHNOLOGIES
• A number of “Developing Technologies” are being
explored by the Industry
• Some reflect widely accepted issues such as
feedback on CPR Quality
• Other features have little or no published evidence
d fi d f t b fit
undefined or future benefits
• An example is the fact that manufacturers use
varying waveforms and energy levels in
defibrillation and it is currently not possible to
advise on the choice one over the other
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